Easiest Vegan Banana Bread

The easiest vegan banana bread! Made with just one bowl, this simple walnut and chocolate banana bread will surely become a family favourite.

A one-bowl vegan banana bread – that’s what makes it the easiest! Just mix and bake, no extra dishes or electronics needed. Banana bread is a great recipe to try vegan even if you’re a novice baker, because bananas add great hold and act as an egg replacer – no chia or flax egg needed.

This tastes pretty much spot on to any not vegan banana bread, with a bit of a healthier twist thanks to olive oil and walnuts. Sometimes we love a loaf of sourdough banana bread and sometimes this super easy loaf, depending what’s on hand.

So make a loaf and have it for breakfast all week (if it lasts that long!) or keep it around for snacks. This one is great for adults and kids alike. Try lightly toasting a slice, it’s the best with some (vegan) butter or nut butter.

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Tips and Notes

If you hate chunks of banana in your banana bread, you can mix the oil, sugars, milk, banana, and vanilla in a blender before adding to the bowl. That’s how the recipe was originally set up but we decided to do everything in a single bowl to streamline a bit more.

If your pan is longer and narrower than usual, the baking time might vary slightly from what’s suggested in the recipe card. Since this also depends on actual temperature of your oven, it’s a good idea to do a toothpick test in any case.

Gently fold in the chocolate and nuts with a spatula to prevent over-mixing of the batter. If you’re unsure, mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and then add the chocolate to that mixture before adding to the banana mix.

Substitutions

We haven’t tested this, but we think that you might be able to make this loaf gluten-free by using a good GF flour blend like the Bob’s Red Mill one. The bananas should hold everything together enough.

If you don’t have walnuts, and other nuts or seeds are good – our top picks are hazelnuts and pecans. Any type of chocolate can be subbed for dark, so use what you have one hand (but note that it might not be vegan, so take a look at the ingredients if you’re making the bread as a gift).

Use chocolate chips instead of chopped chocolate if it’s what you have on hand.

Other types of sugar can be used in place of cane sugar, like more brown or even coconut sugar. They will change the flavour a bit. It can go the other way, too, if you only have cane sugar, but we love the caramel flavour brown sugar adds.

We usually use oat milk, but any non-dairy milk is fine for this recipe.

More Great Banana Recipes:

Cinnamon Banana Waffles
Sourdough Banana Bread (one bowl)
Almond Flour Banana Muffins (gluten free)
Banana Breakfast Cookies with Dark Chocolate (vegan)
Chocolate Banana Babka (vegan)

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This post was originally shared in February 2018. It’s been updated with improvements to the recipe and text most recently as of September 2021.